Bible Verses About Self-Righteousness: Ineffectual for salvation

If I have washed myself with snow-water, And purified with soap my hands,

Then in corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.

`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.